Comment Re:Investors are already making their own assumpti (Score 1) 278
you really are a sucker.
My analogy is EXACTLY what Goldman and other investment banks did.
you really are a sucker.
My analogy is EXACTLY what Goldman and other investment banks did.
Yes, you can override in Ontario if needed. And you get better rates on off peak hours, instead of a higher flat rate.
It really is a good idea.
Four fully enclosed offices with doors which open to a central conference area (just a 3x8 table and half a dozen chairs), which in turn opens onto the corridor accessing the rest of the office. Bonus points if you can parley a space for a sink, a mini-fridge, and a coffee machine on a small kitchenette at one end of the common area.
You should always be close, but there are times when you need to collaborate and times when you need to close the door and concentrate on what you're doing without distraction (coding, of course).
I have actually worked in an environment like this and it is pretty darned productive. We had 6 offices that opened onto a common area. No coffee mess, but life isn't perfect. I think we were much more in sync as a team than the folks who were lined up in offices along a corridor, and much less distracted than being in a cube farm (I've been in both of those environments, too).
so, i can basically come up, say that barack obama is a muslim, or dick cheney eats babies, as 'news', and then get away with it.
I learn something new and disgusting every day.
My new sig, when I get tired of this one - or possibly for use on other forums.
As a further note, Dialects are generally distinguished by word choice, Accents by pronunciation. This isn't strictly true, but close enough for our purposes. Also, there's a bunch of discussion about where the fuzzy line is that distinguishes between dialects (i.e. how much drift has to occur before a new dialect is declared).
According to wikipedia and my handy local desk reference here, we're probably looking at these being the most common English dialects in the world (order of speakers, not necessarily native speakers):
As noted, there is no "Indian English" - local native languages have had too much influence on spoken English, so there are regional dialects in India (Packistan and Bangladesh, too). There is debate as to whether Scottish English is a dialect (which I tend to agree with), and to what extent New Zealand English should be classified as different than Australian English. Philippino English appears to not quite have made the dialect cutoff yet, despite being considerably different than American Standard English.
Examples of Accents are:
Last estimate I saw was that English was the #1 spoken language in the world, eclipsing even Mandarin. However, something like 1/4 of all English speakers couldn't be considered fluent. Mandarin (and, I think both Spanish and Hindi, too) have a larger number of native speakers, while English still has by far the largest number of both dialects AND accents of any language (though Spanish dialects are a strong second).
To respond to you signature, Valve had this idea, and people spurned it at the time. Of course that was before they actually had a bunch of games in their lineup. (At least more than three years ago they did a survey.) The idea was to pay $10-15 and get all the games for free. That idea wasn't bad considering the prices that are paid for games... And you get the kind of support that Steam can offer, such as cloud based services (configuration, saved games, etc.).
They weren't exactly a wildly successful company before they embraced open source. They were already in a downward spiral when they decided to open source some of their projects.
Didn't DNF do that?
Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
